Dean aka Artist in Seine

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Jeepers! I think its holidays? My brain is on ice. Now eye'm due for thinking? :-) X

Eye was getting worried. Eye thought eye did not know any bar codes. Then eye remembered one. Don't sit on a patterned bar stool in a short dress. It makes the back of your legs look funny :-) X

received your tingly fresh barcodes today! thank you. i need to brush now. BYE

That's a lot of toothpaste tubes in-the-mail ;[)

Thank you for the "White Christmas"! Fantastic!!! Will post it at one of those blogs dedicted to the "white" miracle-of-mail by Dean Marks!! It;s great! Already on my tree.

kisses xxx

here's the blog, by PrettyLily.

Dean Wants A White Christmas

;-)

Aha, so the ADA (American Dental Assoc; Artist Dean Awesome; Averagely Daft Artisan; etc?) is now supporting your outstanding artistic efforts. Thanks for the White Xmas card. I was going to take it up to Fort Romeu where they have a shortage of snow to see if it would inspire them, but then i decided to stay at home and have yet another glass of gluhwein.

I hope that you enjoyed London and the fireworks, and that you got an invitation to Buck Palace.

Something will be in the post for you soon.

Best wishes to you & Vanessa for 2012;
val

My white christmas arrived too! But mine was Signal toothpaste. Did you flatten all these toothpaste bottles by running them over with your car? I have to tell you that the post office put your 3D masterpiece in an envelope. I tore it off as it did not belong. Thanks Dean and my teeth thank you too

Mail Art received -- the Good and Bad News.

Bonjour le Siegneur de Bercy (or can I just call you Bercy as in Percy?)

Thankyou for your Xmas cracker piece. Crackers: Who me...or you? Believe it or not I have saved some bits and pieces from our crackers and was going to send them to you; This year we bought 'up market' crackers and they came with intellectually challenging (for me) puzzles, quite good gifts, paper hats, but NO JOKES!

And now the less good news. I received (from the UK)  your 'ID Cheats'/Bar Code card, BUT the front side had come off, so I don't really know what it's about. Perhaps it didn't have a front side after all, and that was part of the 'concept'. Either way, it's difficult to react to it, except to say thanks.

Things will be in the post to you when you get back from the Promised Land.

Until then, Happy New Year to you and Vanessa
Val

happy New Year to you and Vanessa

Wow, Dean, you made me laugh. AGAIN. Love ya for that. The Signal "WHITE system" arrived intact, and now, catching up, I see others received similar white christmases. We are all very lucky. Thank you ten times. I can't figure out how you managed this ... !

Aha! You are also sponsored by Signal toothpaste? You are doing a great job, Dean, keeping our Christmas and holiday season bright...and white! xxx thanks! And what's this i see about a lost-n-found GLOVE for Katerina? Oh, yes, oh yes, pleazzzzze! 

Yippee!!!! It worked. So glad. The note said something to wear as you were sipping your wine. Or for Vanessa. I had both of them, but one disappeared...yes, grapes of laugh is a good title:) 

Yay! Mim and Chuck will land in Paris tomorrow! And how is the weather in the City of Lights? Sunny for tomorrow??? Look around some of those little cafes near St. Michel...maybe someone dropped a glove or two around there ;-)

Or...i'll just have to come by and go hunting around Notre Dame...but only if it is warm and sunny!

Dear Dean,

I am in receipt of your iconic Bar Codes. They even survived the African Mail Art Chompers. I'm chuffed! Does this mean we get to be friends? My offer expires at midnight when RFID makes Bar Codes redundant - thank you ;-) X

Thank you for your Christmas leftovers - we love them! Thanks again and the huge stamp is wonderful. Will post a photo of that in a moment. Happy New Year to you too from us in NC. We hope to be mailing you something in the coming weeks. 

Simply wonderful Dean! Thank you.

I dont sing opera or paint/make moose/mousse - I guess we're even? :-)X

Thank you, Dean! xxx It's here...19 days to go:

(check out both blogs: by Erni and by Janine ;-)

Dean, great image, like much!

Bonsoir! Look at the Mail Arts Projects page, and you'll see a call for pieces about and ON wood. Now after, mobile phone batteries, toothpaste tubes, sunglasses, biscuits, slate tiles, shoes, socks, etc wood might be a bit tame for you, but you might see it as a challenge ...ie how big a log can you send to the USA for €0.89. Regards, Val

Me again.I take it that you don't want a Coffee Mug for your birthday on 28 January, which is just as well as I wasn't going to buy you one anyway...especially as I didn't know that it was your birthday. And even though I know it is, I still won't send you a Coffee Mug or aything else anyway. Insetead I'll bring something along for The Meeting (if I remember, of course)...something totally original, like a Tea Mug?

OR...

thanks for the latest Drambuie flavoured piece you sent me. All the absolutely uselss info on the back of it was, well, quite interesting.

I'll mail you an envelope on Friday...not Mail Art really: you'll see.

Regards, Val

Thank you for your kind words, Sir. I do not fancy myself as a film director but somtimes it is the best documentation

Count down: 17 days to goooooo

Do not give in to toothless despair. Mail is on its way. In two white envelopes, um, about a 3 shade on your scale. While driving, singing opera rather badly and looking at your signal, the silver caught the sun and I was temporally blinded - not by white chompers. FAB thank you :-) X

It's now on the mail Arts Project Group list....try there...these trees go walkabout, you see!

Val

How many hours per day/week do you spend on your art stuff?

As I have very little to do in life these days I spend many hours on it, sometimes most of the day. It's not all mail art though, as I do other arty things. In summer, I spend less time art-ing and more time outside-ing.

I guess I think of this as work, as when anyone asks me what I do in life I reply that I'm an artist.

Fortunately, the art doesn't have to pay for the bills.

Regards, Val

WOOD:  HERE IT IS...

WOODEN POSTCARDS

We want to see the wood that grows where you live. Make wooden postcards from wood growing near you. Send them to:

Stehekin Mail Art

P.O. Box 301

Stehekin, Washington

98852 USA

Your postcards will be displayed on the walls of the Stehekin post office. We can’t return your cards. The exhibit starts as soon as your postcards arrive. Mail as many entries as you want until March 15^th. For more details and for three examples of wooden postcards look

at our website: http://stehekinmailart.weebly.com/ Click on the “Wood” page.

Write the species of wood on your card and where it grew. We’ll list your name on the website and show a picture of your card. Please mail the wood as a postcard not as an enclosure in a package. If possible use stamps for postage not printed labels.

wish i may, wish i might that mr. dean paints tonight.

Did not get any email or spam mail from you, Dean...only the message that you got the "CD" from Greece. I concur with Val that Feb. 18-19 is a better weekend to meet rather than Feb 11-12. But must see what the gang from London think. Be in touch with ya. xx

A white Xmas here would have caused consternation and popping. The artists proof - GREAT!!! I'm a fan of those ;-)! Proof is needed as to WHERE you got all these boxes from - or have I missed that in  the discussions? One thought. Opera sings who do NOT use toothpaste would have teeth sitting around a sad 10. That would not be sightly bearing in mind how often one sees their molars, never mind their tonsils :-) X

Hello new friend. Of course you can send me your shopping lists. Wether you will get what you expect is another thing ... but you will get something for sure.

An hour? Not bad at all. I assume that excludes finding the stuff.

There was an article in last Friday's times about copyright and the Andy Warhol/Lou Reed banana image, which made me think...what's happening about Dean's Anna Banana Appreciation Band (ABAB) or whatever it's called? Are you still going ahead with it?

Val

6 days to gooooo

and counting ;-)

Your look+shred is a knockout, Dean. It's beautiful, I can't stop looking at it, plus as usual you made me laugh. It survived with 1 minor mishap, which is a miracle since you left stuff poking out for the post office to take offense at. You'll see when I scan. Thank you, Dean! I hope your birthday present is arriving--it's in a box, it kind of had to be. But more boldness will happen soon. Stamp, drop, and run.

Someone in Argentina should tell Samuel ...

Later today I will scan and post this, Dean, but can't remember where all this was talked about. Where would you like me to post? I don't think it goes with Bananas ...

Dean! Thank you for the "also human" barcodes! I was really happy to get your card, it's a great one, thank you!

Happy Birthday to you! happiness, love and good cheer!

Happy Birthday, Dean. Have a wonderful day.

Hey, dear Dean, H A P P Y  B I R T H D A Y, are you 39 yet? Come down from that mountain you're on and see your presents sometime. In the meantime, enjoy your special day/weekend.

PARTY  TIME, for Dean!

Happy Birthday greetings from Greece! OPA!

Here are all the Birthday presents for you, Dean!

And a super choco birthday cake...yay!

Have a great Happy Birthday weekend up at Mont Blanc!

We will be celebrating for 3 days...see you on Monday! xxx

I'm a few hours short - BUT Happy Birthday - I hope its well - all the things you wish for, including (...............) - you know those things :-)))! X

oh nooo. AmI still on time? Happy Birthday Dean!

no doubt they did; they are slow in their list, but eventually I will put that together

don't think you need to worry

Welcome back, Dean, from Mont Blanc, and glad you did not get lost in all the snow!

Thank you for the great bar-code card that was in my mail box today as I returned from Athens! 'Will blog ;-) Blue mouse likes it a lot! xxx

You is blogged :-)

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Bonsoir! Would you like to be the Dishonorary Treasurer of Arty Slides International? We need someone with your financial experience.* The duties will not be onerous. I am undecided as to which of my off-shore bank accounts the membership fees should be paid into.

Let me know, Thank you. Val

*Could you lend me €5 until I get my wages, please.

** But if you join ASI and accept the position offered to you, then, as an Executive Officer,  your membership fees will be waived.